10 Best Tech Companies To Work For In 2018

Top 10 tech companies to work for in 2018

Career job site Glassdoor has just released its 10th-annual list of the 100 best places to work across the U.S. under the name “Employees’ Choice Awards.” The compiled list of 100 companies to work for, includes 28 companies that belong to the technology sector.

Glassdoor browsed its huge database of company reviews and ratings from current and former employees to find the companies with the most satisfied workers. Ranking includes companies with more than 1,000 employees, and it’s based on employee reviews submitted since November 2016. Organizations were ranked based on employee ratings across several factors, such as overall satisfaction, career opportunities, compensation and benefits, work-life balance, culture, values and business outlook.

Based on employees’ reviews, companies received overall ratings on a scale of one to five, with five signifying the most satisfied employees.

Even though Silicon Valley bigwigs make a strong showing, “this year’s list represents a diverse group of employers hiring across the country, including top companies in tech, retail, health care, consumer goods, consulting and more,” said Robert Hohman, Glassdoor’s CEO and co-founder.

About: Nvidia Corporation designs graphics processing units (GPUs) for the gaming, cryptocurrency, and professional markets, as well as system on a chip units (SoCs) for the mobile computing and automotive market.

An employee says:

“Working at Nvidia is fun! The working environment is great, colleagues are very helpful and extremely smart. Everything happens here at Speed of Light. Lot of amazing benefits that are best in the industry.” — NVIDIA senior network engineer (Santa Clara, California).

“It sounds trite, but the people make DocuSign an amazing place to work. Everyone I have met during my time at DocuSign has been kind, considerate, and generally happy people, which makes it a pleasure to come into work each day.” — DocuSign software engineer (San Francisco, California).

LinkedIn

Company Rating: 4.5 (out of 5)

About: LinkedIn Corporation is a social networking website specifically designed for people in professional jobs and for recruiting professionals.

An employee says:

“Great perks (free food, free coffee bar rivals Starbucks, free juice bar, free ice cream bar, just free bars… I can go on), great energy in the company to get things done (motivated by a sense of how much of a difference the products make in the lives of people in earning their livelihood or taking it to the next level). Feel proud to work here.” — LinkedIn senior technical program manager (Sunnyvale, California).

Salesforce

Company Rating: 4.5 (out of 5)

About: Salesforce is an American cloud computing company that helps companies manage their sales, marketing, and application programming projects.

An employee says:

“This is one amazing place to work. Execs, across the board, are open and interested in your ideas from any level. The level of transparency is mind-blowing: from Marc sharing his yearly objectives on company-wide TV (where all employees can view and participate), to every single employee’s annual goals posted for all to see — it’s phenomenal to walk into a meeting with someone where you know what’s important to them, and be able to share how your common goals can be accelerated by working together.” — Salesforce senior director (San Francisco, California).

SAP

Company Rating: 4.5 (out of 5)

About: SAP is a multinational enterprise application software company that makes enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations.

An employee says:

“The SAP culture is one of teamwork and empathy. I have always felt that my colleagues and mentors are there to help me, answer any and all questions, and support me throughout my career journey. Also our senior leadership walks the walk and talks the talk, in that you can see SAP’s core values demonstrated in their actions.” — SAP solutions engineer (Washington, DC).

Ultimate Software

Company Rating: 4.5 (out of 5)

About: Ultimate Software is an American technology company that develops and sells UltiPro, a cloud-based human capital management (HCM) solution for businesses.

An employee says:

“The culture and the values are truly the foundation of this place. The culture of caring for People First comes from our CEO and it is felt and shared by almost everyone. Everyone is welcome, women are empowered, minorities are empowered. Hard work is recognized and pays off.” — Ultimate Software specialty support specialist (Weston, Florida).

World Wide Technology

Company Rating: 4.5 (out of 5)

About: World Wide Technology, Inc. (WWT) is a technology service provider that provides technology and supply chain services with a focus on the enterprise commercial, public and telecom service provider sectors.

An employee says:

“I can’t imagine many other companies are encouraging their employees to cross train with other departments, holding future leader classes, or investing in their employees as much as WWT does. The executive team is readily available to anyone who reaches out. They are very level-headed and down-to-earth people who put the company before themselves.” — World Wide Technology business development analyst (Maryland Heights, Missouri).

HubSpot

Company Rating: 4.6 (out of 5)

About: HubSpot is a developer and marketer of software products for inbound marketing and sales.

An employee says:

“There’s a culture here where, no matter your role, if you have something to say, your voice will be heard. The people working here are consistently whip-smart, super hard working and generally fun to be around. Come for the free candy wall, stay for a great career.” — HubSpot customer success manager (Cambridge, Massachusetts).

Google

Company Rating: 4.6 (out of 5)

About: Google Inc. is an American multinational corporation that is best known for running one of the largest search engines on the World Wide Web (WWW).

About: Facebook is the world’s biggest online social networking service and website.

An employee says:

“It’s great working here — there’s nowhere else I’d rather be. You are working with very smart people who are energized and believe in the work they are doing. You will be rewarded for doing well, and for the company doing well. You are empowered and encouraged to wield influence and ship products that can literally affect billions of people, no matter what level you are at.” — Facebook Data Scientist (Menlo Park, California).